Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, LeadershipBeing a CEO changes you. Not at first. The first year or two are a lot like “before”, just more intense. Now it’s all on your back, and your shoulders. …
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Hiring, LeadershipSaaStr has now passed 10,000+ pieces of content, and we’ve somewhat gone on a journey from the early days of a SaaS company, through the growth phases, to the Unstoppable…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Hiring, Human ResourcesIf you squint as you read TechCrunch, you’ll notice a pattern in a bunch of articles about Hot Startups. “Bob worked at Pinterest for 8 months before he …” or…
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Career Growth & Advice, Fundraising, Leadership, PodcastsEp. 353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is sponsored by…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, LeadershipFolks DO YOUR 1-ON-1s i know they arent always fun pic.twitter.com/Sb1BWxsWj3 — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk) July 10, 2020 When I catch up with founders on the march from…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, LeadershipThey say CEO is a lonely job, and I guess in some ways that’s true, but in many ways it’s quite the opposite. If you do it right as a…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, LeadershipFor many of you, these are tough times. For others, things may or may not be tough, but it’s just … hard. It’s hard to be a founder, to be…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Leadership, Marketing, Sales(Note: I wrote a version of this in 2017 when times were good. It’s just as relevant today, more so really, but thought it could use some updates. So here’s…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Customer Success, Customer Success, Growth, Q&AIn today’s crazy world, more and more vendors are seeing customers that want to cancel annual or longer contracts. What should you do? The simple answer “of course” is that…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Sales, VideosJason Lemkin moderates a panel of some greatest-of-all-time SaaStr speakers taking questions from the audience and over Twitter. The panel discussed navigating a future recession, building great office culture, app exhaustion and more.
Career Growth & Advice, Q&AQ: What can candidates do to stand out from the pack to break into top VC firms such as Sequoia and/or Kleiner Perkins? It’s hard. First, bear in mind VC…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Q&A, SalesQ: What is the best sales advice you can give to be a top sales rep? I’m actually not that good at sales myself. But I have observed a lot…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, EarlyA few years back, Aileen Lee and Cowboy Ventures put out 2 seminal posts on TechCrunch about Unicorns. The first one defined the Unicorn age in 2013, and the second…
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Career Growth & Advice, Compensation, Hiring, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, Sales, Sales Ep. 286: Allie Janoch is the Founder & CEO @ Mapistry, the startup that makes environmental compliance simple. As for Allie, prior to founding Mapistry she…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Hiring, Leadership, Metrics, SaaStr Events, VideosHow does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow…
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